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Tell women they’re beautiful.

On March 10, 2017December 9, 2017 By K JewellIn Anecdote, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Build up the women in your lives every day of the year by telling them how strong, capable, and yes, beautiful they are.

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It's Earth Day today! There are a lot of ways out there to reduce your impact on the environment. This year I've been trying to step up my personal commitment to doing so. Some of the ways I'm trying include: . 🌳: Introducing 'unpaper' towels to my kitchen (first pic). These flannel cloths stick together and can be wrapped on a traditional paper towel holder. I store mine folded in a basket on my counter. They are great to use as napkins, plates, and clothes to dry and clean up small spills. Mine are from @marleysmonsters 🌳: Limiting use of plastic wrap (and other plastics). I purchased bowl covers from @marleysmonsters. They have a drawstring which allows them to fit around many containers of different shapes and sizes! I also purchased stretchy silicone bowl covers which are fantastic because they're leak proof! If you're always losing container lids I highly recommend these guys. . 🌳: I've gotten on the reusable straw bandwagon. Mine are stainless steel. I love the straw pouch (also Marley's Monster's) which makes carrying them around super easy. . 🌳: You prob already have reusable coffee mugs and water bottles. I just bought a water bottle cleaning brush and it's fantastic. I highly recommend, if you're going to use reusables, purchase the right kind of tools to make cleaning and carrying them a breeze. It really reduces the pain points of actually using them. . 🌳: We've chosen to cloth diaper Juniper, my favourites are @lilhelperdiapers hybrid diapers and @urbanbabyboutique pockets. Hanging your diapers to dry keeps them earth friendly by reducing energy used in drying. We also use cloth wipes which I made from the DIY in @marymakesgood's book "Handmade Mama" (which I loved). Adding cloth wipes to our routine was super easy once we started cloth diapering. Just toss them in with the diapers! I use a cloth wipe solution also from Marley's Monster's. . 🌳: This weekend we also started composting, which was a major goal! I'll let you know how that shakes out once I've been at it for more than 3 days. ;) Lemme know if you have any questions about cloth diapering or anything else in this post. #earthday #reusables #clothdiapers

I haven't been doing a good job of keeping up with the updates! Juniper is changing so fast now I feel like I have my hands full just keeping up with her without getting whiplash (and she's not even rolling over yet so...) The last couple weeks I've been trying to set a more structured schedule around naptimes. This means having a routine in place. We zip Junie into one of her sleep sacks, I read her a story, then I sing her Baby Beluga until she falls asleep. She only sleeps for about 25 to 30 min at a time during the day but has been making it up to us by sleeping through the night! Hilariously, I sleep poorly when she sleeps through the night. I have to get up to pump anyway so 🤷. I'm sure it will be fab once we're all adjusted! In between naptime, Junie has alternated between being a complete delight and suuuuper fussy. She's never been one to cry, but lately she hasn't hesitated to let us know when she's frustrated. Usually I think she's just overtired. We're going to attempt an earlier bed time to cope with the late evening screams. Lol. When she's in a good mood, oh she's so much fun! Smiling and putting everything into her mouth. She loves storytime and looking at pictures and is still enjoying independent play in her crib with her skwish toy. She discovered her thumb on the weekend and she's been using it lately to great effect. She also got to meet her baby cousin Leon on the weekend for our families Easter get together and I somehow missed getting a picture of them together?? Holding a little two week old reminded me that my baby is already almost three months. I always think of her as being so small, but a new little baby just has that fragile feeling. It's so different holding them at that age. He also managed to sleep through almost the whole gathering. 😂 I won't say I miss the newborn stage, but I definitely ended up liking it more than I initially thought I would.

Some tasty leftovers and new family memories. ♥️

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